Note di Sguardi is a local-international art project conceived by Giovanna Sarti. It was launched in 2020, combining places, memories and visions across three neighbourhoods of three cities: Cervia, Bologna and Berlin. The sixth edition will run from March 2026 until April 2027.

Curated by Giovanna Sarti, Gino Gianuizzi and Nicole Marchi, and in previous editions also by Eva Sharrer and Sara Bernshausen. Each edition of the project involves 36 international artists for 12 monthly displays consisting of three posters, images exhibited in public spaces on permanently installed billboards in the three cities. Not a traditional exhibition, but a discreet and everyday presence: the image enters the urban landscape, offering itself to the casual gaze, confronting the atmosphere, the passing of bodies, the ordinary life of the street.

Each intervention functions as a visual note: a fragment, an accent, a minimal appearance. Hence the title Note di Sguardi – Notes of Glances, which suggests an open score where each photograph contributes to a collective composition.

Photography becomes an instrument of relationship between space, memory and sensitivity. The three cities establish a visual and cultural geography between them: Cervia as a coastal threshold and liminal dimension, Bologna as a historical crossroads and artistic community, Berlin as a territory of political stratifications and contemporary experimentation.

Note di Sguardi is supported by the municipality of Cervia, the municipality of Bologna and the Sebastian Haffner Cultural and Educational Centre in Berlin.

Graphic designer for the 1st – 5th edition: Gianni Rossi. For the 6th edition: Michela Manenti.

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Locations

BERLIN • • • Museum Pankow / Kultur- und Bildungszentrum Sebastian Haffner, Prenzlauer Allee 227/228, 10405, Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg), Germany
CERVIA • • • Largo Trebbo Poetico, Circonvallazione Sacchetti, Cervia, Italy
BOLOGNA • • • Giardino Lavinia Fontana, Via del Piombo 5, 40125, Bologna, Italy

Artists

The artists taking part in this sixth edition are:

_invited by Nicole Marchi in Cervia:
Gianantonio Battistella, Benedetta Casagrande, Gaetano Chiodini, Gaia Credentino, Florence Cuschieri, Giorgio Di Noto, Alex Garelli, Rosa Lacavalla, Camilla Marrese/Gabriele Chiapparini, Carlotta Valente, Andrea Valzania, Giovanni Zaffagnini

_invited by Gino Gianuizzi in Bologna:
Jacopo Benassi, Enrico Bressan, Stefano Cagol, Andrea Caretto/Raffaella Spagna, Mario Casadei Maldini, Tommaso Del Signore, Silvia Diamanti, Daniela Manzolli, Pierluigi Molteni, Ante Radovan, Enzo Sbarra, Francesco Serra

_invited by Giovanna Sarti in Berlin:
Silva Agostini, Martin Albrecht-Fulton, Shannon Bool, Anke Bruns, Avery Edelman, Irina Kholodna, Estefania Landesmann, Danny Otto, Sara Perovic, Florian Scheible, Eva-Maria Wilde, Martina Zaninelli

March 2026

In memory of the artist and photographer Gianni Gori, born in Cervia, who passed away on 30 September 2025, Note di Sguardi is dedicating space to him during March 2026 at its three locations in Cervia, Bologna and Berlin.

April 2026

The sixth edition of Note di Sguardi begins in April 2026 with the three image posters created by the project’s curators Giovanna Sarti, Gino Gianuizzi, Nicole Marchi and the presentation of Michela Manenti’s new graphic work.

Giovanna Sarti, A fragile balance, 1994/2026
Barcelona – 1994 negative 6×9

And to think that this farce will go on for millions of years, they say. [287] 1967
Ennio Flaiano Il diario delgi errori published by Adelphi, 2022

Nicole Marchi, Bunker – La Pazzona, Sardinia 2025
A geometric portal between the sky and the earth. In this stratification of stone and narrative, the shadow serves as a temporal bridge, linking the bunker’s legacy to the present moment.

Gino Gianuizzi, Mushroom Field – detail, San Cesario sul Panaro, 2023
11 February 2023, 14:51, Canon EOS M200

In 2023, I accompanied the artist Nico Dockx to San Cesario sul Panaro, in the Modena area, in search of the Mushroom Field (or Fungaia), a plot of land owned by the family of Dante Bini (1932), an architect and inventor who, between 1966 and 1967, experimented with a new construction method, the Binishell: thin-shell structures made of reinforced concrete, lifted and shaped solely by air pressure. His best-known creation is the Dome built for Michelangelo Antonioni and Monica Vitti in Costa Paradiso in 1970. Seven of these prototypes remain today. After years of neglect, the site at San Cesario sul Panaro was protected on 17 July 2024 by Decree No. 103 of the Regional Commission of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (MiC) in Emilia-Romagna.